Walltopia climbing Sunday

Beautiful day Hive and 3Speak Family,

It has been raining for several days already and it is nearly impossible to go for a hike in the mountain. But there is always an alternative. Recently when the weather is bad I decided that I will be improving my climbing skills and my hand grip and what better place to do that than a climbing centre. Luckily, I had one relatively close to my home so I could swing by whenever I want and have plenty of fun. This week I will not have a mountain video but I do not want to be idle and not post anything regarding my sport activity.

It was already dark but that was not stopping me at all. On weekends Walltopia Sofia works until 22 hours. This is the building and the shiny part inside is the climbing gym.

Beautiful recollections of Walltopia´s inception time.

Crazy stuff going on. If you are afraid of heights, this will definitely be a challenge for you. I am afraid of higher altitudes but my legs were definitely shaking when I was on the highest areas. Better not look down 😄

They also offer all kinds of courses with private instructor. The whole climbing gym consists of different areas or atriums. Atrium because the ceiling is very high in the sky. All atriums have Boulder arenas where you try your best to climb on relatively low altitudes but without rope and harness. In the video above I did exactly that. It was very hard and I was supposed to use my legs more instead of just pulling with my hands. But because I am relatively new in this sport, I utilized all my power through my hands and wasted a lot of energy. The climb was supposed to be done with legs and hands but I cheated and pulled myself only with my hands. Not much of a technique 😃

Here is the result. Now I had to rest for at least 5 minutes in order to be able to try again 😅

Because I was not using any technique, my forearms were getting stiff and pumped with blood in just a few attempts, so I had to stretch them. I made a funny animation of that. Nowadays, I try to make interesting animations in my blogs and vlogs.

Anyway, apart from the Boulder section, there is the rope section too. There you use harness and you attach it to a rope via a carabineer that is already set secure and attached on a reel near the top of the atrium. Sounds complicated a bit but it is not. I forgot to take pictures of the mechanism to show it, but I will do it the next time I go. It it really interesting stuff.

This is the rope section. You need to follow the exact colors. Every color is a route and every route is different. You need to check the route prior starting the climb as they vary in difficulty. There is an App to check and activate the routes called EwallsMobile. I will show you how it works in my next vlog.

That section is for more advanced climbers because here the support is not granted by the already fixed rope on the wall. Here you need another person to support you while you climb. You need to have more knowledge on how to tie knots, like the Figure 8 Knot. Usually people undertake a course before being able to use this lot.

Anyway, I did some rope and boulder climbing, I also trained a bit in the gym (Yes! They do have a specilized climbing gym. I will show it to you in my next vlog.). Now it is time to go back home with satisfied smile on my face 😎

Beautiful skies and the moon was visible.

On my way back home, because it rained a lot, there were plenty of snails just taking a stroll on the sidewalk 🙃

Took a macro image of this one. Pretty cool!

I hope you like my new series of vlogs guys! I am trying to mix it up a little bit so that I can be more active in Hive and not post 1 time in 2 weeks. I will be posting more interesting vlogs so stay tuned. Let me know if you have questions regarding climbing.

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